Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 2 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 3 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 4 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 5 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 6 | Both houses of Germany 's parliament overwhelmingly approved the treaty last December . |
| 7 | The framework slowly stretched the fabric apart . |
| 8 | A steady burning sensation gnawed at the Doctor 's joints as the steam yacht slowly churned the water . |
| 9 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 10 | He was merely quoting his old textbook from the Ecole de Viticulture et d'Oenologie at Avize which examines the practices of Champagne in the 1940s ; no doubt , the breakdown of cuvée and taille merely indicated the number of press operations it took , in less sophisticated times , to squeeze out these two parts of extraction . |
| 11 | DEC 's recent Windows-on-Alpha agreement with Microsoft Corp only drove the nail further into ACE 's OSF coffin . |
| 12 | In 1988 the university purportedly terminated the applicant 's contract of employment not for good cause but on the ground of redundancy , giving him three months ' written notice . |
| 13 | The local authority social work team concerned with J. would have accepted Dr. I. 's advice , but in view of the seriousness of the decision rightly referred the matter to the case review sub-committee consisting of elected councillors . |
| 14 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 15 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 16 | But his Conservative counterpart said the drop in funding only reflected the fall in unemployment levels since their peak in 1986 . |
| 17 | In the circumstances this was a poor joke and Ski West sensibly switched the emphasis of the visit to a failsafe reserve theme , intake . |
| 18 | The photographer only had the opportunity to do it because it was a benefit and he had access to the models that he would n't normally have . |
| 19 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 20 | The fact that revocation thereby deprived the owner of potential development value did not in itself warrant compensation , since if permission had been given the development value would be transferred to the state through the development charge . ) |
| 21 | That defeat effectively extinguished the independence of the Bohemian kingdom which did not find expression again until 1918 in the new state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 22 | While the News International ban and the consequent judicial review effectively closed the door to some forms of library censorship , Section 28 seems likely to push librarians towards censorship in several areas of service , including book displays , exhibitions , and reading lists . |
| 23 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 24 | The Social Work Department duly acknowledged the receipt of letters sent to the nine children care of the department . |
| 25 | A wagtail nervously patted the crease |
| 26 | Upon conviction , she ( I use the pronoun ‘ she ’ for the sake of convenience here ) appealed on the ground that the statute expressly made the crime one which only a man could commit . |
| 27 | The Opposition bitterly opposed the right to buy council houses when it was first introduced ; now they are in favour of it — or , perhaps , not quite in favour , for they become very cross when I point out what a huge success it has been . |
| 28 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | Is the Lord President aware that , at the end of last week , the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry warmly welcomed the Government committee report recommending , among other environmental measures , an increase in petrol tax ? |
| 30 | Why has American football so captured the imagination of the British public ? |